Portable Self-Replicating C Contest

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <1417 at sw1e.UUCP> uucibg at sw1e.UUCP (Brian Gilstrap [5-3929]) writes:
>It seems that it would be impossible to create a program which generates it's
>source as output because you have a self-referential system and will end up
>with an infinite recursion.

Nope.  If you try to make that line of reasoning precise you'll find
gaps in the logic.  In fact self-replicating systems can be quite small.
Self-reference need not imply infinite recursion, and self-replication
need not imply self-reference.